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Hd Quarts 3rd Div 1st Corps Trans-Miss Army No 30th 1862 Col R.[Robert] C. Newton Chief of Staff 1st Corps T. Miss Army Sir I have the honor to submit the following memorandum Report of the strength and effeciancy of my command to Wit [Mosby M.] Parsons Brigade Total 3355 Agregate 3636 Present unarmed 422 Present Unshod 117 [Robert G.] Shavers Brig [Total] 1573 [Agregate] 1573? [Present unarmed] 770 [Present unshod] None reported Col [James R.] Shalers [27th Arkansas Infantry] Regt of Shavers Brig has but twenty or thirty armed men, it is an effectient well drilled Regt originally armed with indifferent Rifles and shot guns which have been gradually turned over to ordinance Dept under orders directing all unservissable weapons to be thus disposed of. Col Shaler informs me this moment that he has found something over a hundred arms in Van Buren [Arkansas] which he desires most urgently may be turned over to him. I cannot conceive that a better use could be made of them A few unarmed men might always accompany each Regt at the commencement

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Hd Quarts 3rd Div 1st Corps Trans-Miss Army No 30th 1862 Col R.[Robert] C. Newton Chief of Staff 1st Corps T. Miss Army Sir I have the honor to submit the following memorandum Report of the strength and effeciancy of my command to Wit [Mosby M.] Parsons Brigade Total 3355 Agregate 3636 Present unarmed 422 Present Unshod 117 [Robert G.] Shavers Brig [Total] 1573 [Agregate] 1573? [Present unarmed] 770 [Present unshod] None reported Col [James R.] Shalers [27th Arkansas Infantry] Regt of Shavers Brig has but twenty or thirty armed men, it is an effectient well drilled Regt originally armed with indifferent Rifles and shot guns which have been gradually turned over to ordinance Dept under orders directing all unservissable weapons to be thus disposed of. Col Shaler informs me this moment that he has found something over a hundred arms in Van Buren [Arkansas] which he desires most urgently may be turned over to him. I cannot conceive that a better use could be made of them A few unarmed men might always accompany each Regt at the commencement